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John Hubbard Beecher, ''also known as'' Little John Beecher (8 February 1927,
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) was an American
bandleader A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop band or jazz quartet. The term is most commonly used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or ...
, jazz trumpeter and valve trombonist, and a singer of
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s. His band, Little John Beecher and his Orchestra, was active throughout the 1950s, and was booked by National Orchestra Service of
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. Before forming his own band, he played trumpet with Lee Williams.


Bands

* Lee Williams Orchestra * Little John Beecher and His Orchestra — Beecher founded and served as its bandleader throughout the 1950s. The orchestra was a nonet plus a featured vocalist
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. Beecher was a large man, weighing 300 pounds in 1955. He promoted the
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"THE BAND with the big front." Beecher booked his gigs through the National Orchestra Service ("NOS"), a
territory band Territory bands were dance bands that crisscrossed specific regions of the United States from the 1920s through the 1960s. Beginning in the 1920s, the bands typically had 8 to 12 musicians. These bands typically played one-nighters, six or seven n ...
agency based out of
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. Royce Stoenner, who had been an executive at NOS, left the agency in 1959 to become a partner with the Dave Brumitt Agency, a territory band booking agency in Atlanta. John Beecher followed Stoenner to Georgia and started working through his agency there. Shortly thereafter in 1959, the band ended. * The Cavaliers Orchestra — Jimmy Fuller founded this group in 1946 and served as bandleader until 1976. Having played trumpet with the Cavaliers since 1973, John Beecher became its second bandleader in the spring of 1976. The Orchestra, based in
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, is still in existence today.


Original compositions

* "Mischa Fischa," by
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, nonet, cool jazz, up-tempo (1958) (originally composed by Fischer for the Little John Beecher Orchestra) * ''Cinoton'', by
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nonet (1959) (originally composed by Fischer for the Little John Beecher Orchestra) : "Mischa Fischa" and "Cinoton" were recorded for the album ''Coming of Age'' by the Dirk Fischer and George Stone Orchestra on Seabreeze RecordsSeabreeze Records
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Former members of John Beecher's Orchestra

* 1959–1960: Travis Wayne Jenkins, tenor sax (23 May 1939
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– 11 Jan 2004
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) * 1950s: Betty Jordan, vocals ("Jordan" was a stage name), aka Betty Hanson (married to Don Hanson) * Stewart "Dirk" Fischer * Richard "Dick" Vaughn Busey, tenor sax (born 1931) * Russ Long, piano ''(né'' Russell V. Longstreth 9 Mar 1939 – 31 Dec 2006) * Robert Fisher * Mel (Oscar) Ross, sax * Carl Greene, horn * Johnny Morre * Larry Brown * Robert Hampson, baritone sax * 1954: Bill Porter, drums * 1958 Don Farrar, Bass


See also

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Territory band Territory bands were dance bands that crisscrossed specific regions of the United States from the 1920s through the 1960s. Beginning in the 1920s, the bands typically had 8 to 12 musicians. These bands typically played one-nighters, six or seven n ...
s


References


External links


Territory Bands Data Base
in memorial of Murray L. Pfeffer (1926–2008) : Website maintained by Thomas Meyer,
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, France {{DEFAULTSORT:Beecher, John Hubbard American jazz trumpeters American male trumpeters Swing trumpeters American jazz composers American male jazz composers American music arrangers Jazz arrangers American jazz bandleaders 1927 births 1987 deaths People from Marshalltown, Iowa 20th-century American composers 20th-century trumpeters Jazz musicians from Nebraska 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century jazz composers